did anyone on the standard bodies (from MSFT?) suggest LINQ framework as a WebSQL "replacement" ?
it makes a lot of sense IMHO. it abstracts away dependency on exact SQLite version, but preserves a familiar SQL-like mental model. it is stable, mature, well understood and widely deployed/used (god i sound like a shill.. ;)
and has the added benefit that it can be implemented in two different flavours: as a standard JavaScript (ES3) library on top of WebSQL (or SQLite in Gecko), or as a first-class language extension with syntax sugar similar/related to array comprehensions (from JS1.7/Harmony/ES6)..
if it wasn't proposed, can someone from WHATWG (like you Brendan ;) politely ask Microsoft to "contribute" any related intellectual property to W3C? how likely do you think would it be for AAPL/GOOG to accept it? (and if not, it could simply be implemented as a thin layer above WebSQL ;)
i stand in awe whenever i see a Carmack keynote. it almost feels like he breathes in once at the start, and delivers a coherent and easy to follow (and i am no game programmer) stream-of-conscience speech for 90-180 minutes without a single pause or the aid of a slide deck.
if ever there was a genius (not throwing it out lightly) who knew what he was talking about...
forcing people? who the actual f-- is forcing anyone to use g+?
you would have far better luck arguing that you are forced to use your real name on facebook (as it seems "everyone is on facebook", and thus "you must be also" is a valid sentiment), but even there it's a biiig stretch..
and i don't ever remember the controversy of real names on facebook..
this guy must be young, as he doesn't seem to remember how fucking awful the internet was before google (google search that is. he seems to take it for granted, as anything invented before i was born.. like running water... or electricity).
I’m not saying that my code needs to save the world or support
humanitarian causes, but it should at least be something that I like,
or I would use, or that I care about.
and i am not just talking about how awful search was. remember punch-the-monkey ads? i feel like google adwords is the second greatest internet invention.
so i have to look at a couple of (non-intrusive, often related to my interest) ads, in order to pay for my access to any bit on information from anywhere in the world, in single-digit milliseconds?
and btw, google's self-driving cars? toootally about freeing-up more of your time to be able to watch even more ads -- because today, i don't look at ads (billboards) while i am driving..
(ask me why advertising is the only way to pay for a service like search at a scale like the internet -- with transaction costs and all that)
why let facts/data ruin a good narrative -- "google is lying to us":
Another data point that highlights the discrepancy between the incredible
device activation numbers claimed by Google and actual real-world usage
of mobile devices. Example: Flickr’s stats on popular camera phones.
Where are these Android phones? How many of them are used for little
more than phone calls and texting?
if you just add up current top 4 models from one (of top 5) android manufacturer, you get 5+ million photos, half the number uploaded by iphone4 (the four models have been on the market roughly the same amount of time as iphone4).
(even John Gruber linked to this, so it must be important ;)
This new high-end model will be called iPad Pro,
not iPad 2 Plus. Why? Well, first Apple isn’t
Samsung. The company doesn’t add prefixes and
suffixes except for ‘i’ and ‘Pro’.
is everyone who covers AAPL required to check his brain at the door?
> have you seen him doing those kind of snarky jokes about apple? ever?
Yes. Numerous times. I’m not really in the mood to go skimming through the several months of archives it would take to find a good example.
To be honest though, Microsoft is much easier to ridicule, because they have much looser control over their messaging, and so it’s not terribly surprising that a generally Apple-oriented commentator could consistently poke fun at them.
A recent example of snark against Apple. Gruber had generally seemed to think that has been reasonable in deal with Gizmodo and the acquired iPhone. However, when Jobs was reported to have said that Apple had to stand by it's core values in dealing withrge situation, Gruber said he wasn't sure what core value that might be, other than "don't fuck with us." ( http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/06/02/jobs-slide ). That sounds just a but snarky to me. You can read this snark againt Apple on the current front page at DaringFireball, not far from the one about Google. It's not unusual for Gruber to write snarky things about Apple. People who say otherwise: a) don't read Gruber and have no idea what he says and are thus unqualified to comment on his content, or b) do read him, but are so biased against him that their selective memory taints their ability to make objective comments.
it makes a lot of sense IMHO. it abstracts away dependency on exact SQLite version, but preserves a familiar SQL-like mental model. it is stable, mature, well understood and widely deployed/used (god i sound like a shill.. ;)
and has the added benefit that it can be implemented in two different flavours: as a standard JavaScript (ES3) library on top of WebSQL (or SQLite in Gecko), or as a first-class language extension with syntax sugar similar/related to array comprehensions (from JS1.7/Harmony/ES6)..
check out the two code samples, and a list of language extension (all feeling right at home in JS): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_Integrated_Query#Langu...
if it wasn't proposed, can someone from WHATWG (like you Brendan ;) politely ask Microsoft to "contribute" any related intellectual property to W3C? how likely do you think would it be for AAPL/GOOG to accept it? (and if not, it could simply be implemented as a thin layer above WebSQL ;)